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Top Ten Health News: 08 January, 2016
08 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten Health News: 08 January, 2016

Press Release by the Hon Min of Health – Prof. Isaac F. Adewole. Hurdles before Nigeria’s health care in 2016. Budget 2016: Give Nigerians functional...

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Dear President Buhari, honour the 2001 Abuja declaration and deliver a genuinely Pro-Poor 2016 Budget
05 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
Dear President Buhari, honour the 2001 Abuja declaration and deliver a genuinely Pro-Poor 2016 Budget

Editor: On the 19th of December 2015, we at Nigeria Health Watch joined the ONE Campaign and 24 other Non-Governmental Organisations in writing a letter to...

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Top Ten Health News: 01 January, 2016
01 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten Health News: 01 January, 2016

As 2015 Winds Down On Nigeria’s Health Sector. FG to build 10,000 health centres across Nigeria. Lagos abolishes contract doctors, moves to resolve sector crisis....

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Nigeria Health Watch: Our Continuing Promise in 2016
29 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Nigeria Health Watch: Our Continuing Promise in 2016

For each day that we have been on this journey, to put health front and centre of the political agenda in Nigeria, we have done...

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ARCHIVE: Top Ten Health News [2014 – 2015]
25 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
ARCHIVE: Top Ten Health News [2014 – 2015]

View the Top Ten Health News Archive collecting stories from January 2014 to December 2015. Click HERE to view.

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Professor Eyitayo Lambo’s ‘Tour de Force’ and Call to Action
22 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Professor Eyitayo Lambo’s ‘Tour de Force’ and Call to Action

On December 9th 2015, we gathered in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, for the first Public Service Lecture of the Nigerian Primary Health Care Development Agency. ...

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An assignment of Hope: An insight into living with disabilities in Nigeria
15 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
An assignment of Hope: An insight into living with disabilities in Nigeria

By Ebele Vivien Okoli Editor: The 3rd of December was World Disability Day. Ebele Vivien Okoli, a Resident Doctor specialising in Community Medicine at the...

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Time to engage with mental health care in Nigeria
05 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Time to engage with mental health care in Nigeria

Enyi Anosike is a Public Mental Health professional, and a trustee of the Public Health Foundation of Nigeria. He writes this special piece on mental...

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HIV elimination goals and the reality of living with HIV in Nigeria
01 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
HIV elimination goals and the reality of living with HIV in Nigeria

Today is World AIDS day 2015. All over the media in Nigeria, there have been reports on the new goal of the National Agency for...

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Adewole stands ‘On the Shoulders of Giants’: The 18 torchbearers of the Nigerian Health Sector
24 Nov
By Nigeria Health Watch
Adewole stands ‘On the Shoulders of Giants’: The 18 torchbearers of the Nigerian Health Sector

Editor: In this piece, Andrew F. Alalade, a Neurosurgeon and current Public Relations Officer of the Medical Association of Nigerians across Great Britain (MANSAG) takes...

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Balancing access and excess in the fight against antibiotic resistance in Nigeria
17 Nov
By Nigeria Health Watch
Balancing access and excess in the fight against antibiotic resistance in Nigeria

Resistance to antibiotics is a growing global problem. It is particularly acute in Nigeria because of our extensive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics. Probably because...

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Before the SDGs, how did Nigeria really do with the MDGs?
10 Nov
By Nigeria Health Watch
Before the SDGs, how did Nigeria really do with the MDGs?

In August 2015, reports emerged in the Nigerian press that “Nigeria had attained the Millennium Development Goals”.  The article below quoted the Secretary of Programmes...

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